Former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose has described Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde as having a quiet look, but deadly.
Fayose said this on a Channels Television programme: Politics Today, on Wednesday following the conclusion of the south-west congress of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Both Makinde and Fayose belong to the PDP and presented candidates for the chairmanship of the party in the south-west.
While Makinde backed a former deputy governor of Oyo State and eventual winner Taofeek Arapaja, Fayose supported Eddy Olafeso.
Speaking against the backdrop of a viral video that showed some thugs threatening to kill him if he attends the PDP congress in Osun State and its eventual outcome, Fayose said those who made the threat were Makinde’s men.
“I have seen this video. What this gentleman was saying at the time, they came to the venue saying we are waiting for you here, we are going to kill you,” he said.
“This is the chairman of the road transport workers in Oyo State. This people came with Governor Makinde’s convoy. Everybody knows.
“This is enough to show the whole world if Governor Makinde, a first-time two-year old governor, yet to be two-year-old governor, is parading characters like this, it simply shows the kind of people behind him.”
When confronted with the fact that the video also shows the character and quality of the people in the PDP, Fayose said it was shameful, stressing that thuggery is disgraceful for the party.
He said: “These same people came to Ondo and I told Governor Makinde. So I am glad the whole world is seeing this.
“Governor Makinde, you look quiet, but deadly.”
On the Congress, Fayose alleged that dead people were accredited to vote, adding that a former majority leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Adeola-Akande, identified those that were dead and sick on the accreditation list.
“I have accepted this result not because they won, but because I am one of the people that can’t defect to another party,” he said.
